Quotes About Transformation

He changed his behavior, but I don't believe people can change their essential natures.

to renew a conflict is to acculturate.

But the past doesn't have to be the future. That's the point of something you aspire to.

Sometimes you waited at home in your room so demobilized into quiet that you could just about feel the maskingtape losing its stick and your mortifying teenaged posters of American moviestars who were 50% Jewish and Argentinian-German models who were 100% hot, Uri Malmilian (the football striker), Uri Geller (the mentalist), and Ha'Tzanchanim (the Paratroopers), peeling slowly from the walls.

Unless by some miracle, he got up from the chair and changed his life. Unless some store of character revealed itself, and with a little guidance from me, he returned in six months a new man. But even then, I thought, that change, that character, would have to be in him already. I was never going to manufacture it with a few stern warnings—God knows I'd tried—and pain forgets within the hour what it learns in an instant.

If I could just become a lotioner, I thought, how many other small, pleasurable gestures made throughout the day might click into place for me, and all that exile, all that alienation and scorn, simply vanish?

Narcissism, justly lamented for doing so much damage, especially within the family unit, could also work miracles, as when a fundamentally apathetic collection of illiterates gets wind that they appear as characters in a book and transforms overnight into a bunch of rabbinical scholars.

Be like Josiah. When our lives disagree with the Word of God. I want to say, "This Word is true, and I must change.

We can't change by fancy methods. We can't change by mere willpower. But God's Spirit working in us can help us to "will and to act according to his good purpose" (Philippians 2:13).

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Except for Thurlow,there was not a person she would have missed and many a one to whom she would gleefully have said farewell forever.But that had changed now,utterly changed. She longed for Dragon, the sound of his voice, the touch of his hand,the warmth of his smile. For a moment she closed her eyes and saw him behind them.

I release you, my beautiful and terrible fear. I release you. You were my beloved and hate twin, but now, I don't know you as myself

You're coming with me, poor thing. You don't know how to listen. You don't know how to speak. You don't know how to sing. I will teach you." I followed poetry.

You should have changed if you wanted to remain yourself but you were afraid to change.

Every living thing suffers transfiguration. Yes, until the creation of Eve, Adam had fondled beasts.

Behold, I tell you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye… 1 CORINTHIANS 15:51–52

Clouds aren't as pretty as they used to be. That's a known fact.

Think of stretch marks as pregnancy service stripes.

How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty?

I never change, I simply become more myself.

I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end.

I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card…and somehow the activity of writing changes everything.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily diguised as Chaos.

Still, I wouldn't have turned back if given the choice. At twenty-one, I felt I had gone to the bottom and floated up; I had the lightness of feeling there was nothing left to lose...